Customer Reviews

Handbook of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration

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Very complete handbook. Very good ilustrations and up to date. Good reference for HVAC experienced engineers or for students.

This book is one of the best I have come across....the complete guide for HVAC engineers. I have many HVAC books, but this is the top of the tops...well illustrated formulae, diagramatic illustrations, plus controls schedules...discussed issues and common scenarios pertaining to design. Well done Shan Wang

I have been reading through this book and I am struck by three things. The first is the very great completeness of this text. It's very helpful if you are already quite familiar with HVAC and need a chapter to bring you up to speed on a new aspect of your field. The second is that the author really needed an editor to help with flow of the language. The book can get a little awkwardly worded at times. The last is unfortunately my greatest quibble and that is that for some totally unknown reason, the author has chosen to use antiquated imperial/standard units all over the text. SI units are often given in parentheses, which helps but adds to the clutter, but the psychrometric charts and gas properties are listed in exclusively imperial units in the appendix. This makes the appendices largely useless to me as I really don't plan on converting absolutely everything. I very much hope that for the third edition, the author will fix this problem.

Although this book has a lot of information, it lacks examples and sample problems which help to provide the design confidence I was looking for in an HVAC text. In my opinion this books only value is as a reference for the experienced HVAC engineer.

I have read about 50 handbooks about air conditioning or HVAC system, among all these books I think this one is easy to understand and I can find almost what I want in this book.